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...absurdity of this situation is exactly what the 23-year-old author points at. Iweala is a Harvard graduate and received the Hoopes Prize for “Beasts of No Nation,” which he submitted as a creative thesis with the guidance of Jamaica Kincaid. Iweala, a Nigerian-American whose mother is the Nigerian finance minister, has worked with Nigerian child-soldiers in rehabilitation. He gives no illusory messages of hope. On the contrary, all hope is extirpated in the epigraph, in which Rimbaud’s forlorn words resound: “je parvins...
...basic outline of his life has been well-publicized ever since 50 began his ascent of the charts: a poor kid from South Jamaica, Queens is introduced to drug dealing at a young age; he is arrested numerous times; he narrowly avoids death; he is discovered by Dre and Em; he sells millions of records and makes lots of money. So, what we expect 50 to do in “From Pieces to Weight” is to fill in the gaps, to provide the details that will help us understand how he became...
However, the second suspect, identified as Emilio Rosa, 38, of Jamaica Plain, proved to be more violent and elusive than his alleged partner-in-crime...
...about 1:30 on a freezing morning last winter, Jacqueline Francis, a Lesley University sophomore, finished her shift at a Jamaica Plain J.P. Licks ice cream store and started out for her apartment near Northeastern University...
Francis, the late-night worker who rode the Night Owl, said that she remembered that ridership was comprised of “almost all young people” when she took it home from Jamaica Plain. She added that the whole bus was only about one-fourth full...